The Shrewsbury Chorale

Giving Tuesday, December 3rd , is an international day of charitable giving. The Shrewsbury Chorale is asking you, our audience, and our community to choose us as one of the non-profit organizations to support this year. We are a 68 year-young community chorus in Monmouth County composed of people who love to sing, love to sing together, and love to share our gift with others.

Ticket sales cover roughly 25% of our annual budget and we rely on various fundraisers to make up the difference. This year, we are blessed with an anonymous donor who has agreed to match all funds donated to our Chorale starting with Giving Tuesday and throughout the month of December – with NO UPPER LIMIT.

Please join me in making a difference with your tax-deductible gift!

2024-2025 Concert Schedule

December 14: Magnificat and More – featuring John Rutter’s rousing larger work, “Magnificat,” along with carols by Mathias, Dirksen, Sirett, and others.

First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, 7:00 p.m.

March 23: Requiem Choral Festival – featuring local youth singers joining us to perform Michael John Trotta’s new “Requiem” along with works sung by the different groups

Tower Hill Church at Red Bank, 4:00 p.m.

June 8: Rhymes, Runes, and Rhythms – choral works based on poetry United Methodist Church of Red Bank, 4:00 p.m.

In addition, on May 26, 2025, the Shrewsbury Chorale will be performing in Carnegie Hall!

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In this new year, The Shrewsbury Chorale is excited to present more brilliant concerts of choral music for the Monmouth County area!

On Sunday, March 26th, we will present our concert “The Golden Harp,” at Christ Episcopal Church in Christ Church, Middletown, NJ. Along with a few standard choral gems by Mozart, Palestrina, and Byrd, the majority of the repertoire features music which is much less often performed. For the first half, we will present Gwyneth Walker’s “The Golden Harp,” a recent, larger work based on the words of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

“The Golden Harp” is scored for mixed chorus and a string quartet – that is why we are reaching out to you today. We hope that you, the supporters of the Shrewsbury Chorale and the music we are bringing to our community, will help to fund a brilliant, professional string quartet to enhance our next concert. In the past year and a half under the musical direction of Fiona Smith Sutherland, we have sung many unaccompanied works, along with pieces accompanied by organ or piano, but singing with a string quartet will help to bring our performance to a new level.

Founded in 1957, the Shrewsbury Chorale is a small, quality, choral ensemble in Monmouth County, NJ specializing in eclectic concerts featuring lesser known and/or living choral composers.

Would you like to help contribute towards the string quartet for our upcoming concert? Any donation amount will have an impact. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause.

The Shrewsbury Chorale is organizing this fundraiser to benefit the group’s 65th Season of Concerts. We are raising money to specifically cover the following costs for the two Spring concerts by the Shrewsbury Chorale:

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of 2020, the Shrewsbury Chorale suffered the financial loss of ticket sales and concert program ads. As a non-profit arts organization, we rely on patron donations to help cover operating expenses. Founded in 1957, the Shrewsbury Chorale is a mixed chorus, performing varied repertoire in Monmouth County, New Jersey. We are asking for your help now that we are able to provide the surrounding communities with live music again!

 

Our next concert is on Sunday, April 24th, 2022 at 4:00 pm and is called “The Time of Singing: Celebrating 65 Years of Song,” with themes of peace, love, and social justice. Performing in the beautiful Freehold Presbyterian Church, the Chorale will be singing a combination of familiar choral repertoire by Bainton, Mozart, and Batten, and including works by living composers such as Shawn Kirchner and Michael John Trotta.

 

The Shrewsbury Chorale's June Pops concert on Sunday, June 12th at 4:00 pm contains a delightful juxtaposition of new and familiar works, including a piece for treble voices by Canadian composer Sarah Quartel, and a Sacred Harp setting by Jeffrey Douma from Yale.  Punctuated by solos from the Chorale's two brilliant section leaders, Jacqueline Quirk and Douglas Clark, the concert also has music by Gerald Finzi, a rousing spiritual by Hall Johnson, and a setting from Bernstein's West Side Story.   

 

Would you like to help make a difference? Any donation amount will have an impact. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause.